Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that ...

The never-before-seen "nova," dubbed V462 Lupi, recently appeared in the constellation Lupus, after suddenly becoming 4 ...

Apparent magnitude is how bright a star appears from Earth. The more scientific measurement, however, is absolute magnitude. Astronomers created this scale so they could compare the actual ...

The nova V462 Lupi was first discovered on June 12 by the Ohio State University-led All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae ...

The Big Dipper’s stars. With an apparent magnitude of 1.79, Dubhe (Alpha [α] Ursae Majoris) is the second-brightest star in Ursa Major and the 33rd brightest star in the night sky.

The farthest stars are not seen with the naked eye, but only seen with a space telescope like the Hubble Space Telescope, with a magnitude of over 30. There are different types of magnitudes but the ...

At an average distance of 92.9 million miles (149.5 million kilometers), it dazzles with a blinding apparent magnitude of -26.7. But keep in mind that compared to most other stars, the sun is ...

Catalogs often list the variable star Betelgeuse as having a magnitude of 0.5, but during its great dimming of 2019-20 it got down to 1.7. Then this year it was 50 percent brighter, giving it a ...

A "new star" is shining in the constellation Lupus thanks to an unexpected stellar explosion within the Milky Way — and it can currently be seen with the naked eye from parts of North America ...

The binary star system discovered in the new study is the heaviest of its kind that's ever been confirmed, with a combined mass that's 1.56 times that of the sun. At this magnitude, the two stars ...

V462 Lupi's brightness peaked on June 20, when it reached an apparent magnitude of +5.5. The star has since dimmed slightly but remains above the +6 magnitude threshold for naked eye visibility.